Stolen imagery

okay. I've only seen stills of blue guy on a plate. How does this have any resemblance to the last supper? Is it just that there's people at a long table? The more images I find the more concerned I am that christians have not seen a picture of the last supper.

it is funny how christians by and large do not follow the biblical holiday but totally do the cool pagan ones.

What, that's not common knowledge?

Btw, christmas was stolen from Yule. And some stories in the old testament are from Gilgamesh and Atrahasis Epos, like Mose' abandonement in a reed basket as an example.

Literally all beings and concepts in christianity have a pagan origin. Even ancient YHWH/Yahweh/Jehovah/Tetragrammaton (God) goes probably back to El.

But i guess that's natural, concepts like an underworld are in above epics too, those sorts of stories developed over civilizations.

For accuracy sake, yes the depiction in the Olympics was meant to be Feast of the Gods, but that painting came after The Last Supper and is thought to be directly inspired by da Vinci. Last Supper - 1495 Feast of the Gods - 1635-1640

Linking Wikipedia. The primaries appear to be in French 😅 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Festin_des_Dieux

I think there are a large number of valid reasons to be confused by this image that do not have to do with Christianity.

Apparently any time people are in a row on one end of a long table, it's automatically a Last Supper reference.

FYI, for all of those shitting on Christians for "not being educated" and upvoting this, the last supper was painted in 1498, the feast of the gods was painted in 1635. Lol

As someone raised as a Mor[m]on, their response would be: the pantheons of pagan gods are just corruptions of the Gospel taught to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Thankfully, Joe Smith (not a couch banger, just a plain old pedophiliac serial rapist like any other good Christian leader) restored (made up) the lost parts of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

This meme is just confused. The Feast of the Gods motif would be familiar to da Vinci and whether it was deliberately referenced or perhaps just a visual convention of how to portray a feast, and who influenced who are questions best asked to an art historian specialized on the time period. But ultimately it doesn't really matter - da Vinci's The Last Supper is one of the most iconic images in history and it's not strange that people watching makes the connection, I certainly did even if I also got the reference to Les Festin des Dieux. Of course the idea that the ceremony mocks Jesus or whatever is a hysterical reaction, but that's American evangelicals for you.

Connecting this to christian adaptation of Pagan holidays and motifs, however, is farfetched and ahistorical. The Last Supper is a painting, Leonardo is not the christian church. Leonardo was active during the high renaissance, a time when the ideas and imagery of (mostly pagan) Antiquity was reintroduced into christian europe. References to pagan rome and greece was à la mode in art.

I don’t think it counts as stealing- syncretism is present in virtually every faith that has contact with another faith, modern and ancient.

Yahweh was actually the old god of the harvest and wine I believe. Before the Jewish Pantheon shrunk to one god only. So Yahweh was similar to Dionysus at one point. There are still remnants and mentions of the other gods in the old testament, like Yahweh's wife Ashira and Baal who I think was an underworld god. Also funny that in the old testament, god talks about other gods as if they're real but weak or bad, doesn't deny they exist.

Papa Smurfs birthday.

I have the weirdest urge to start a fight with the blue dude and I dont know why.

I still don't know what is going on in this picture. Can someone explain? I know this is some type of an opening ceremony and conservative christians were upset by it.

But I do not like this scene either.

It was all based on divine shapes and tapestries etched by early mathematicians to represent what they thought were powerful concepts, especially "moral" ones, that they thought could shape people's behaviour.

People like Pythagoras could go insane worshipping these shapes, even though they had useful mathematical properties that could predict things about what the real world was like. They weren't totally stupid, and maths without technology wasn't extra hard.

Scholars like Jesus would go around spreading ideas about how perfect the triangle was. It contained three simple connected points that were very similar. Specifically, it had a C3 rotation in mathematical group theory. If you spin it by 120 degrees, it's the same afterwards. It contained three equally important geometric points that could never be transformed or "manipulated" so you could easily tell them apart. This was His Trinity.

Shapes like this are actually very important and have special properties in quantum dynamics nowadays, so their beliefs still hold a lot of power in many very logical people and how they think the world works based on science.

There were also more complicated systems popular in the past, too, that built up other forms of mathematics. Astrology was a good example too. They actually had very complicated systems for predicting lots of things based on measurements of time. If the data you had generally fit what usually happened (at least most of the time), you could be quite confident in those beliefs without being totally moronic.

I actually think some of these more mathematical beliefs may see a resurgence in the near future as proper quantum technologies are developed. People could fear them as they disrupt beliefs about technology, even those that only know a limited subset of modern physical laws (like Newton's laws, which are very accurate, but not universally "true" by modern scientific standards).

Most people don't realise how much technology is about to change. It's already happening and it's scary.